Stockholm's culture runs from Asplund's 1928 library rotunda to Munch hanging in a banker's seaside villa and a metro system carved and painted like a cave. Three days across Skeppsholmen, Södermalm and Djurgården's quiet eastern tip.
Sweden's national modern art collection on a former naval island: Picasso's Spring, Dalí's The Enigma of William Tell and Rauschenberg's stuffed-goat Monogram. Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00, Thursdays to 20:00, closed Mondays.
The 1866 fine-art museum reopened in 2018 after a five-year rebuild that reopened its blocked skylights. Rembrandt, Vermeer's The Love Letter, Carl Larsson's staircase murals and Swedish design up to modern prototypes. Tue–Sun 11:00–17:00.
Contemporary photography inside a 1906 Art Nouveau customs house on the Stadsgården quay. Four large exhibitions a year plus rotating smaller rooms, and a top-floor café whose window wall frames Gamla Stan across the water. Open daily 10:00–23:00.
Gunnar Asplund's 1928 public library — a cylinder of books rising from a cube, the hinge between Nordic Classicism and functionalism. Climb the dark entry stair into a rotunda ringed by open shelves. Mon–Thu 9:00–21:00, free entry.
Banker Ernest Thiel's 1907 villa on Djurgården's eastern point, purpose-built for his Nordic collection: Munch, Anders Zorn, Carl Larsson and Eugène Jansson's blue Stockholm nights. Munch's portrait of Nietzsche hangs here. Tue–Sun 12:00–17:00.
Stockholm's tunnelbana is a 110-km gallery in blasted bedrock. Per Olof Ultvedt's blue vines at T-Centralen, the excavated palace fragments at Kungsträdgården and Solna Centrum's red-sky pine forest are the essential three.
Sweden's theatre, dance and music museum on Sibyllegatan, in an 18th-century royal bakery. Hands-on rooms let you play instruments, work stage machinery and handle puppets and costumes from Dramaten productions. Tue–Sun 11:00–17:00.
The white marble Jugendstil national theatre at Nybroplan, opened 1908, where Ingmar Bergman directed for decades and Greta Garbo trained. Carl Milles sculptures flank the facade and the gilded Grand Foyer ceiling is by Carl Larsson.
Sculptor Carl Milles' home and studio on a Lidingö cliff, opened to the public in 1936. His bronzes stand on terraced granite pillars above the water, so figures like Hand of God appear to float against open sky. Open daily 11:00–17:00.
Södermalm's waterside weekend market: second-hand Swedish design, vinyl, vintage Sixties glass and food trucks along the Årstaviken shore. Runs Saturdays and Sundays 11:00–17:00 from April to late September, free to enter.
A 1889 paint factory turned experimental art and urban-planning kunsthall on the Liljeholmen waterfront. Shows lean toward architecture, sound work and city futures rather than gallery painting. Thu–Sun 12:00–16:00 during exhibitions.
The short hump of Hornsgatan over Mariaberget holds a dozen small commercial galleries in a row — Galleri Doktor Glas among them — showing Swedish painters and printmakers in rooms you can cross in a minute.